“Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt” By: Mohamed Ahmed ID: 900094048 Draft: 02 Course and Section Number: REHT 101_ 05 Date: 11th of May‚ 2012 Outline I. Introduction A. Origins B. Traditions of Female Circumcision C. Thesis: Beliefs and practices of female circumcision in Upper Egypt II. Different types of circumcision A. Cutting tip of clitoris B. Most severe Cutting C. Procedure III. Physical Cleanliness
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Female Genital Mutilation The History‚ The Laws‚ The Opposition‚ and the Future 10/23/2013 Jyl Female Genital Mutilation: The History‚ The Laws‚ The Opposition‚ and the Future Female genital mutilation includes “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia‚ or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons” (WHO). The World Health Organization states that 140‚000‚000 girls and women worldwide are currently living
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471University of PhoenixFemale genital mutilation‚ also referred to as female circumcision‚ has become a controversial issue within the medical‚ legal and women and childrens activists rights groups within the last few years. Exodus of refugees from African countries in which female genital mutilation is currently practiced to the West has created vulnerable populations within the United States in regards to the health concerns that surround female genital mutilation. Using Orems nursing model as a guide
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Female Genital Mutilation An eighty six year old woman‚ Faduma Ali‚ still remembers the pain of being circumcised at the age of eight. Horrendous as it was‚ she still allowed her own daughter to undergo the same tribulation. But when it came to her granddaughters‚ she decided to step in and try to stop it. But this is not the same fate shared by the majority of women in West Africa‚ especially in the country of Sierra Leone. For 22 year old Isutu Ahmadu‚ The time did not come for Isutu Ahmadu
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Female Genital Mutilation The World Health Organization on February 2013 estimated that‚ “Worldwide‚ female genital mutilation affects up to 140 million women and girls in varying degrees of severity” (“par”). Female Genital Mutilation also called Female Genital Circumcision includes the excision of the clitoris and the labia minora for non-medical reasons. It is usually performed on girls between the ages of four and ten. However‚ it can also occur at birth‚ at the time of puberty‚ when the female
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your family holding you down. The blade creeping between your legs‚ you scream but no one cares. You beg your family‚ your mother‚ your father to help but then it happens. Now open your eyes. In Somalia alone‚ 98 percent of women experience Female Genital Mutilation at one stage in their lives. FGM is the destruction of women and girls sexual organs for non-medicinal reasons. This act is practice globally in 29 countries and due to immigration‚ FGM has spread to western countries such as Australia. This
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“The Truth about Female Genital Mutilation” Since the beginning of time‚ men have been the more dominating sex. Women have always had to serve and be inferior to men. FGM is performed all over the world. It mostly takes place in West Africa‚ Syria‚ Egypt‚ Turkey‚ and Iran. FGM is even performed in countries where it is illegal; such as the United States‚ Canada and Europe. Women should be allowed to be educated‚ work‚ and in charge of her body
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GROUP NUMBER LEVEL …. INDEX NUMBER NAME TERM PAPER TOPIC: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. THESIS: Problems caused by female genital mutilation include problems going to the bathroom‚ not being able to have sex normally‚ problems with gynaecological health‚ sexually transmitted infections‚ pregnancy and delivery problems‚ and psychological and emotional stress and it can be curb by community meetings‚ education‚ substitute rituals‚ changing attitudes‚ and law enforcement.
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words Issue (3pts): Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting II. Kairos (4pts): In July 2013 UNICEF published the largest report yet into the extent of FGM. (Report “Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change.”) In July 2013 Germany also passed the first law against FGM‚ including a maximum penalty up to 15 years jail sentence. With this newly introduced law Germany is now considered to be among the strictest persecutors of female circumcision in
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN THE GAMBIA INTRODUCTION Origin: it is not known when the tradition of female genital mutilation/cutting originated. Some people believe the practice started in ancient Egypt while some believe it began during the slave trade when black slave women entered ancient Arab societies. It is believed in some quarters that FGM/C initiated with the arrival of Islam in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Yet still others believe it started independently in
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